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the east and west the view has the usual appearance — grassy vallies 

 and hills — with a great disproportion of jungle. 



The summit is gained after an easy march of two hours ; the ascent 

 is gradual. The highest ridge is naked of trees, but to the north 

 the slope is in one portion covered with heavy tree-jungle, in which 

 the underwood is as thick as I have ever seen it : it consists of an 

 Acanthaceous plant ; the forest itself of oaks, chesnuts and Rhodo- 

 dendron arboreum, which last is common on the highest margin. A 

 few Pines occur, but scarcely above the middle of the hill. To the 

 north very high ground is visible, as likewise from Myrung, and 

 between this and Chillung is an elevated plateau which appears to me 

 likewise very eligible for the sites of European residences. 



But many places about Moleem are so, especially towards Non- 

 kreem; and it is much to be regretted that some situation in this 

 part of the range had not been selected for the site of a sanatarium 

 instead of Churra. The Rhododendra were covered with mosses and 

 other epiphytes, among which Otochilus occurred. Bambusae, 2 Fici 

 sp. Andropogon, Gaylussacia, etc. occur about the wood. The vege- 

 tation of the grassy hills was precisely the same, Aroidea, Erianthus, 

 Tofieldioidea, Parnassia nana potius collina, Sphacelioidea, Osbeckia, 

 Arbutoideae, etc. I got scarcely a single new plant ; the best was a 

 fine large Neckera, sect. Dendroidea. The temperature being 70° : 

 water boiled at 201°, making the altitude 6,167 feet. No view of 

 any particular beauty was obtained, nor did any thing occur to repay 

 me for the trouble and fatigue of the journey. 



About Moleem an Osmundoid is common enough, but not in flower : 

 the northern forms are Ranunculus, Anemone, Parnassia, Pyrus, Pinus, 

 Viola, Galium, Campanula, Clematis, of which an additional species 

 occurs, Bromoidese, etc. etc., as at Moflong. I took the height of this 

 place again ; the mean of the three thermometers gave 4,502 feet, the 

 temperature being at 60° s water boiling at 95°, 203 J°, 204°. It must, 

 however, be remembered that my residence is not 100 feet above the 

 bed of the Boga Panee, so that it would be easy to attain an elevation 

 of 5,000 feet in the village itself. 



October 1 7 th. — I returned to Churra to send away my collections and 

 to consult with Major Lister as to the routes proposed for me by Capt. 

 Jenkins, viz. through the Garrows, or through the Cacharees. No- 

 thing particular occurred en route. I met with Hydrangea exaltata 

 along a torrent flowing into the main- feeder of the Boga Panee, and 

 two other Araliacese. The highest ground crossed is towards the 

 ravine of the Boga Panee, and from this a good view of Moflong is 



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